# visualize or Google Slides?

> Choose between agent-created visual HTML in your project and a collaborative browser-based presentation editor.

## The difference

Google describes Slides as an online presentation app for creating, formatting, presenting, and working with other people. It supports live collaboration, comments, presenter view, and familiar slide editing. [Google Slides help](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2763168) documents that workflow.

visualize works inside an agent. It creates self-contained HTML from project and conversation context, including documents that are not decks. You review the source or rendered file and can host it anywhere.

| Capability      | visualize                           | Google Slides               |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
| Working surface | Agent and local HTML source         | Collaborative slide editor  |
| Output          | Reports, diagrams, decks, and tools | Presentation decks          |
| Live co-editing | Outside the skill                   | Built in                    |
| Best fit        | Context-rich visual documents       | Collaborative presentations |

## Choose visualize when

- the agent already has the research, code, or decision context;
- the output should be interactive HTML or a report, diagram, plan, or review;
- brand decisions should live in reviewable project files; or
- you want an open-source skill rather than another editor.

## Choose Google Slides when

Choose Google Slides when several people need to edit individual slide objects together, comment inside the deck, or present through established Workspace and Meet workflows. Google also offers Gemini-assisted creation on eligible plans. [Google's current Gemini in Slides guide](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/17111393) describes editable deck generation and style matching.

Google Slides is a trademark of Google LLC. This comparison is independent and not endorsed by Google.